St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-29
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HALs1EAD,s STRATEGY.

There is something In the Wlnd. we
mean that there is dust in the political at
mosphere When MURAT HALsTEAD
travels all the way from Cincinnati to CHI
cago and occupies for two whole days
room in hotel adjoining that occupied by
JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE we feel justi-
fed in asserting that there is something in
the wind. Mr.. HALSTEAD doesn't own
property in Chicago. nor has he business
relations there of any kind. 1t is seldom
that he ever goes to Chicago. 1t could not
have been an accident then that he hap
pened to 90 there just at the time MI.
BLAINE was stopping over in the city and
took an adjoining room with communl-
eating door between his own and Mr..
BIAINE's room. Nor was it an accident
that as soon after Mr.. HALsTEAD's ar
rival as he could change his linen and get
the dust brushed from his broadcloth he
sent his card to Mr.. BLAINE. And then
that very same afternoon MI. BLAINE re-
minded his wife that it was necessary for
her to do some shopping before she left
Chicago, and that their boy WALKER
would be ready to accompany her out on
the street just as soon as she could get her
wraps OH. AS soon as the good old lady
had started on her tour of the dry goods
establishments in the prairie city, the COM
muncating door, which connected MI.
BLAIXE's parlor with Editor HALsTEAD's
room. flew open, and the two great Re-
publican leaders were in close consultation.
What transpired only the Dickey birds can
tell We know that Whereas Mr.. BLAINE
intended to start East on Saturday. he
didn't go until Monday. We also know
that he didn't change his mind because of
any aversion to Sunday travelling We
know that Mr.. HALSTEAD spent the Sab
bath in close communion with the man
from Maine. When BLAINE left for
Augusta on Monday evening HALsTEAD
also took his departure for Cincinnati
That is all the public knows concerning the
meeting of the two eminent politicians
But it is just enough to arouse public
curiosity to know more. And there are
none more interested in knowing what oc-
Cured at that meeting than the friends
of JOHN SHERMAN. 1t has not
been long since there was newspaper
rumor to the effect that WBITELAw REID
had written MURAT HALSTEAD a letter.
in which it was suggested that the sole SAL
walton of the Republican party lay in
throwing Mr.. BLAINE overheard. With a
show of great Indignation Mr.. HALsTEAD
denied that there had been any such cor
respondence. Now the question uppermost
i'll the public mind is whether HALsTEAD's
visit to Chicago was for the purpose of per-
suading Mr.. BLAINE to withdraw from the
canvass in favor of JOHN SHERMAN, or
whether it was to sell out SHERMAN. Up
to date there is no evidence of weakening
in the BLAINE canvass, but rather dispo-
sitiOn to grow more aggressive. If this
aggressive spirit continues to develop the
legitimate inference will be that MI HAL
STEAD went to Chicago on a BENEDICT
ARNOLD mission, and that he has scheme
on hand to turn the Ohio delegation over
to BLAINE. 1t is an apparently big under
taking, but when We remember the charac-
terlstic treachery of the Ohio politicians
there is nothing beyond their efforts.
SHERMAN has been betrayed in the house
of his Ohio friends before. and it would be
nothing singular if he shared the same fate
again. 1t would be a good scoop, though,
on the other Republican politicians in Ohio
if MURAT HALsTEAD should make deal
by which he would gather all the plums OF
federal patronage into his own hat. Field
Marshal HALsTEAD at the head of the
war department would give esprit du corps
to BLAINE'S cabinet.